What is Hackers' Pub?

Hackers' Pub is a place for software engineers to share their knowledge and experience with each other. It's also an ActivityPub-enabled social network, so you can follow your favorite hackers in the fediverse and get their latest posts in your feed.

With the prices of GPUs, RAM and now SSDs and even HDDs doubling or tripling this year, many of us are not going to be upgrading anything for the foreseeable future.

While this will definitely sideline Windows 11 to a greater extent than the requirement for TPM, it makes the opportunity (and for many, necessity) for Linux and BSD even greater.
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will be available on soon, and we hope to get more feedback to improve the project. While uses server APIs, here we can do much more to improve your experience with an server running directly on your device. We already introduced E2EE DMs and personal identity. We will go further with automatic deletion, even at posting level. You decide the availability of a message. We will also work on interaction controls from .

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I AM AN INCREASINGLY UNHINGED EVANGELIST FOR DELTA CHAT AND I DO NOT APOLOGIZE FOR THIS!
I'M GOING TO START HANGING OUT BY WHERE THE JEHOVAS WITNESSES STAND AT THE TRAIN STATION WITH A CARDBOARD SIGN AND A QR CODE!
THIS IS THE FUTURE! THIS IS CHAOS! THIS IS ANARCHY! THIS IS FREEDOM! THIS IS THE FEDERATED NETWORK OF DITCHES! THIS IS DELTA CHATTT!!!!!!!!!!

@deltaDelta Chat

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here’s a worked example of why nobody believes firefox’s AI kill switch will be anything but a marketing wedge

these showed up in my File menu, displacing the New Private Window item and fucking up my muscle memory, in spite of having browser.ml.enabled set to false. the setting for this is a new nonsensically named option, extensions.ml.enabled. a merry fuck you to the guys who showed up in my replies telling me to just disable the config flag I already disabled months ago.

a screenshot of the mozilla Firefox menu bar on macOS. the file menu is open, showing two new menu items “New AI Window” and “New Classic Window” right above the existing “New Private Window” option, physically displacing it down on the screen. neither of the new menu items has a keyboard shortcut.
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RE: mastodon.social/@pojntfx/11608

Yeah, even local models optimized for tool calls do really well with codebase search. You don't need to give away your data or utilize power hungry datacenters if that's your concern (ignoring training of course which I know is still a stickler for many).

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I AM AN INCREASINGLY UNHINGED EVANGELIST FOR DELTA CHAT AND I DO NOT APOLOGIZE FOR THIS!
I'M GOING TO START HANGING OUT BY WHERE THE JEHOVAS WITNESSES STAND AT THE TRAIN STATION WITH A CARDBOARD SIGN AND A QR CODE!
THIS IS THE FUTURE! THIS IS CHAOS! THIS IS ANARCHY! THIS IS FREEDOM! THIS IS THE FEDERATED NETWORK OF DITCHES! THIS IS DELTA CHATTT!!!!!!!!!!

@deltaDelta Chat

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AI/LLM and hardware hoarding

On the one hand, the current situation for RAM, SSDs, and now HDDs looks grim for people who buy their own servers, desktops, laptops, phones, tablets, etc. On the other hand, the hardware has not been made and handed over. That requires money, and AFAIK no "AI" company is profitable. Can "AI" and cloud companies raise (and spend) enough more money to pay for all of the hardware they've signed agreements for? That depends on how long people will write more checks.

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